This voyage appears to have been a reconnaissance mission.
Melyn returned on the same ship after only ten days in the New World, .

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Melyn and Kuyter were traveling as prisoners of Kieft.
The ship struck rocks off Swansea, and 81 passengers were drowned, including
Kieft. Melyn and Kuyter, along with 18 others, survived.

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Brooks

1999

Courtesy of Chris Brooks:
"I did see in the New Netherland Connections that Pim Niewenhuys
was printing some of the Amsterdam Notarial records that relate to New
Netherland. A couple mention Cornelis Melyn's ill fated voyage of
1640 and give the name of the ship as De Vergulde Hoop (The Guilded
Hope)."

Curtis

1999

Courtesy of Joanna Baxter Curtis:
A chart entitled, "The Known Voyages of Cornelis Melyn."
Mea culpa, I've lost the bibliographic citation.